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Fresh water from the sea: The Gulf War focused the world's attention on the importance of making salty water drinkable. Growing pressure on water supplies could revitalise research into desalination techniques
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A man for all habitats: David Attenborough, this year's president of the British Association, is one of the most important and gifted science popularisers of our day
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The search for the missing elements
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Foraging for nature's balanced diet
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Safeguarding Britain's mother of invention: The British Technology Group, which markets bright ideas from academia, looks certain to be privatised. But many fear that without special protection, the new-look company will fail
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Patents: Dressing up
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Patents: Inventors' health warning
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Patents: Decline of the British Patent Office
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Technology
Technology: Colour videophones along the old lines
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Technology
Technology: Ultrasound focuses on eye problems
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Technology: Superconductors caught up in court challenges
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Technology: Making waves to seek out oily waters
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Technology: Disc change will leave data stranded
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Technology
Technology: 'Supercooker' leaves the competition steaming
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Science: Dutch scientists plan new approach to gene therapy
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Technology
Technology: Patent Office reveals Hotol's secrets
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Science: Chemical bombshell explodes in tumour cells
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Science: Ancient axe falls on the road to Europe
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Science: Metals trace the secrets of nitrogen fixation
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Science: Woodland soil yields a multitude of insect species
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Heart in place
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Space junk mail
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Beach bugs
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Science: Energy of 'nothing' upsets cosmology
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At the BA: Britain's festival of science and technology rolled into Plymouth this week. ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science - Fighting fat's unhealthy image
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At the BA: Britain's festival of science and technology rolled into Plymouth this week. ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science - Watchdog to kill bugs
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Longest lives
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Still stuck
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Trade coup
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Before there were dinosaurs
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Strangely young
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AIDS trial challenges US legal system
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Birth of a nation seen from space
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At the BA: Britain's festivel of science and technology rolled into Plymouth this week. ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science - Going green gives greater gains
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At the BA: Britain's festival of science and technology rolled into Plymouth this week. ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science - How yuccas neutralise nasty niffs
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At the BA: Britain's festival of science and technology rolled into Plymouth this week. ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science - Nuclear physicist puts bomb under science establishment
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Britain asked to foot its nuclear cleaning bill
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Genetic test reveals transplant errors
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Patent group flotation
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Donations to 'genetic bank' aid diabetes research
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Texas raises a rival to the transputer
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Africa's favourite tree falls ill
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Power loss leaves Hubble's good eye blinded
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Geneticists told to sing for their supper
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Opinion
Features
Sounding the bottom of the world
Features
Fresh water from the sea: The Gulf War focused the world's attention on the importance of making salty water drinkable. Growing pressure on water supplies could revitalise research into desalination techniques
Features
A man for all habitats: David Attenborough, this year's president of the British Association, is one of the most important and gifted science popularisers of our day
Features
The search for the missing elements
Features
Foraging for nature's balanced diet
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